LAST Saturday there was a get-together with a difference when local licensed wildlife volunteers from Wildlife Information Rescue and Education Service NSW, Mid North Coast, (WIRES MNC) members met at the Botanical Gardens, Coffs Harbour. WIRES MNC members came from…
THE one-day Urunga Disaster Planning event took place late last year and attracted a good turnout of locals. The session was held in conjunction with the Neighbourhood Care Network and other local emergency services. Advertise with News of The Area…
ECO-ANXIETY is a term coined to explain the fear that with the direction the planet is going in, everything is doomed and there’s nothing we can do about it – and people on the Coffs Coast are feeling it. Bellingen-based…
THREE free Mental Fitness and Wellbeing workshops are being offered in Macksville, Bowraville and Nambucca, put on by local not-for-profit CHESS Connect. The free workshops are open to those living and working in the Nambucca Valley who want to learn…
NAMBUCCA Valley gave a helpful welcome to world traveller Michael Kozok from Poland who is making his way unmotorised from Steep Point in WA to Cape York in QLD, in celebration of gaining his Australian citizenship. Leaving Stuarts Point on…
CONSERVATIONISTS have been buoyed by a NSW Labor party announcement that, if elected in the upcoming State election, it will create a Great Koala National Park on the Mid North Coast, stretching from Kempsey to Coffs Harbour. Penny Sharpe, the…
TRULY great songs are able to be stripped back to just a singer and guitar, without sound engineering, backing vocals and additional instruments and still capture a listening audience. Last Friday night at the 2NVR studios singer/songwriter Georgia Cortes Rayner…
THE Mid North Coast Local Health District (MNCLHD) invites residents to join the Mental Health, Alcohol and Other Drugs Consumer Advisory Group. The Consumer Advisory Group, which was established in 2016, provides an opportunity for people with a lived experience…
ON Wednesday 18 January the State Minister for Lands and Water, Kevin Anderson, paid a visit to Nambucca Heads to deliver some very welcome news. The district’s prolonged wet weather has caused instability in a number of locations in and…
THOUSANDS of Australians say they are giving up the grog this year, according to new research. The Finder survey of 1,085 respondents revealed two percent of Australians, equivalent to over 400,000 people, plan to stop drinking alcohol in 2023. More…